"Maroune, are you ready? I've got a bit of an idea about the bloodline awakening. I want to try it now."
Watching the pale pink gradient gauze dress cling wetly to Maroune's graceful, delicate body, Hachiman lifted the shell covering her and kissed her fair, soft yet springy plump cheek.
"You found a way to awaken my bloodline, Master? Master, you're so good to me!"
Hearing his words, Maroune wrapped her jade-white arms around his neck and kissed his face hard several times, her bright eyes shining as she stared at him.
Actually, she never cared that much about awakening her bloodline. So many years had passed already. Whether it awakened or not didn't affect her status as a princess.
No one in the Service Club ever looked down on her for being a mermaid princess without an awakened bloodline. Even her qualifications to serve Master weren't decided by strength. It depended on other ways to please him.
But she just loved this about Master.
He was already so busy, yet he still specifically studied bloodline awakening just for her.
'Ah... which idols should I arrange to serve Master next?'
Everyone was thinking about how to win Master's favor. She had to plan an idol party to make him happy too.
"Wait until I actually awaken your bloodline before saying I'm good to you. For now, just focus on feeling what's happening inside your body."
Hachiman shook his head with a smile and held her tighter.
Originally, he planned to let Lala and Leticia research a method together, or wait for the biological genius, Golden Darkness's "mother," Tearju, to help.
But now, with the newly obtained Desire Accumulation skill, he had a different idea.
Desire Accumulation and Instinct Liberation worked so well on tsunderes. Maybe they could be used in other areas too.
Instinct Liberation didn't only release desire instinct. Evolution instinct should count as well.
He just wasn't sure whether something like evolution desire existed, or whether Desire Accumulation could actually gather it successfully.
If it worked, then when that evolution instinct was released in an instant, it would probably need a huge amount of life energy devoured to successfully awaken the bloodline.
Of course, considering that too much stimulation at once might make the mermaid princess Maroune lose consciousness, he had to accumulate it slowly and release it step by step.
Maroune felt a bit confused about why awakening her bloodline felt the same as their usual intimacy, but she didn't think too much about it and quickly tossed the thought aside. If Master said so, then that was how it was. She didn't need to struggle over it.
Maybe bloodline awakening carried extreme life danger. Maybe Master planned to specially accompany her once beforehand, so that even if it failed, she would have no regrets and could savor this happiness in her final moments.
If she could cough blood while on the brink of death and tell Master to forget her and find someone better, just imagining it made her excited.
It was a pity she hadn't gotten pregnant with Master's child, so he couldn't look at a daughter who looked just like her and remember her.
Maroune didn't notice anything wrong. She was completely immersed in her own fantasies.
She even felt like she had become a bit stronger. Before, just kissing would make her need to rehydrate. Now she had enjoyed it for quite a while without having to ask Master to let her rest first.
Though forcing her fragile body to serve the fierce Master, and only after she was gone would he finally learn to cherish her and regret it deeply, that feeling wasn't bad either.
———
Half an hour later, Maroune, who had been immersed in her fantasies, suddenly sensed something was wrong.
"M-Master!"
Her eyes widened sharply. Her small mouth slowly opened. The pink long hair covering her back suddenly spread out, and a powerful wave of magic burst from her body.
["Ding~"]
["Mermaid Princess Maroune bloodline awakened."]
["Character mission completed: Awakened Demi-human."]
["Mission reward: Awakened Magic Essence."]
As Mermaid Princess Maroune's long, round legs tightly clamped around Hachiman, the system notification sounded in his ear.
[Awakened Magic Essence: A legendary ability all demi-humans dream of. It has an irresistible attraction toward female demi-humans. Your "magic essence" can dominate female demi-humans, including but not limited to developing their latent abilities, awakening bloodlines, and enhancing strength.]
Looking at the description, even Hachiman, who had seen plenty and remained calm no matter what he did, felt a bit surprised.
He had thought Awakened Magic Essence only meant awakening demi-humans' bloodlines and helping those without awakened bloodlines grow stronger.
Compared to the Magical Girl Awakening Template made specifically for humans, this should have just been a demi-human exclusive ability, slightly inferior.
But judging from this description...
'Irresistible attraction to female demi-humans?'
Compared to Succubus-Attracting Physique, which granted immunity to mental control and physiological attraction to succubus-type females, it was hard to say which was stronger in its effect on succubi.
But in terms of scope, attracting succubi versus attracting female demi-humans, the latter was clearly much broader.
The concept of demi-humans was too wide. Most races that weren't human but resembled humans could probably count. He just didn't know whether angels and demons were included. If they were, that would be terrifyingly strong.
What shocked him most was the description of dominating female demi-humans.
He never expected this Awakened Magic Essence to be so overbearing that it would directly use the word "dominate."
Having already experienced increasingly refined skill, Service Halo, Succubus-Attracting Physique, Dependency Affinity, Absolute Taming and so on, he didn't doubt that Awakened Magic Essence could do it.
'But dominate how?'
Hachiman lowered his head and lightly bit Mermaid Princess Maroune, then patted her straight, long fair legs, snapping her out of her daze.
"Maroune, do you feel anything different about me right now?"
"Different? No?"
Mermaid Princess Maroune looked down at her snow-white legs wrapped tightly around his waist, shook her head, then looked at him in confusion.
"Master, did my bloodline really awaken? I'm not dreaming, right?"
She could clearly feel the warm current of magic flowing inside her.
The instinctive squeeze of her thighs when he patted them was also extremely clear.
But it was too clear, almost unreal.
Master had loved her before too. Why was this time so special?
Not only had she awakened her bloodline, she had also gained control of her human form. Even her throat had become a special magic organ. The magic contained within made her want to sing loudly.
"Don't tell me you even dream about doing this with me?"
Seeing that Maroune didn't seem affected by Awakened Magic Essence, Hachiman felt puzzled about the conditions for dominating female demi-humans. Still, he smiled and brushed aside the pink hair on her fragrant shoulder, kissing her crystal-clear moist lips.
"Mmm!'
With misty eyes, Maroune stared at him without blinking, then lowered her head shyly and nodded, her face flushed red.
"Or walk around the club and greet the new demi-humans. You don't dream about them too, right?"
Hachiman felt speechless and said helplessly.
He had forgotten that Maroune was also a pervert in her own way. It was just that her obsession wasn't clinging to him, but indulging in tragic love fantasies.
In a way, her hobby felt even more extreme than Asai Saki or Kamijou Maki.
"Master, I have a great idea. Can I go to your room?"
Hearing him tell her to walk around, the shy Maroune suddenly thought of something and quickly looked up at him, asking eagerly.
"With my status, I can't get on your bed. If Master secretly loves me on your bed like we're having an affair, if this is really a dream, I'll definitely wake up."
A lover who doesn't want to climb onto Master's bed isn't a good lover. She had always wanted to climb onto his bed, secretly enjoy his affection there, and then be caught by Princess Iris and the others bursting in.
It was just that once she got on the bed, the sheets would get soaked, and she would need to rehydrate from losing too much water.
So she was only suitable to be loved in the pool or bath, unable to fully integrate into the elf princesses' little group, always with a bit of distance.
But now she had legs. No need to worry anymore. From now on she could lie on the bed and watch up close just how fiercely Master loved the elf princesses.
"Right."
Seeing that she had just awakened her bloodline, gained legs to walk freely, and mastered extraordinary power, yet only thought about sneaking around, Hachiman fell silent.
'You really are more perverted.'
Maybe she was already too obsessed with him, so Awakened Magic Essence didn't seem to have much effect.
In the original story, Aoe Akane's mother, Aoe Mai, seemed to resist the control of Awakened Magic Essence after years of suppressed desire exploded.
Or maybe he wasn't using it properly.
From what he remembered, Awakened Magic Essence had to be infused many times for demi-humans to awaken their bloodline, not like how he had just used multiple abilities at once to force success.
Maybe he couldn't dominate Maroune because she had only just awakened, and he had only just gained Awakened Magic Essence, without actually infusing it into her.
Thinking about it that way, it didn't seem that outrageous.
After all, most of those close to him already listened to him. A bit of tsundere attitude was just normal interaction. There was no need to use domination.
Well, except for a certain bratty female Ursula who kept causing trouble outside and sending him people.
Unless some extremely powerful female demi-human fell in love at first sight and tried to snatch him away, he probably wouldn't need to use domination.
Besides, unless Gabriel's sister, Raphiel, descended to earth, he didn't think anyone on Earth could ignore all the people around him and do that.
And even then, setting aside whether angels counted as demi-humans, Raphiel wasn't the type to force him.
"Let's go to my room and try it. I also want to see whether you'll still dehydrate after turning human."
Hachiman shook his head and decided not to overthink it. He would first infuse enough Awakened Magic Essence into Maroune and see the effect.
Even if domination didn't show on her, the other effects like developing latent ability and enhancing strength should still work.
Originally, he had worried that the demi-human faction relied only on Iris and a few others taking the lead, while the rest depended purely on physical strength.
As time passed, the slower-growing demi-humans would definitely lose to the increasing number of magical girls on the human side.
He didn't expect this demi-human exclusive Awakened Magic Essence to be so strong. From now on, the Service war between demi-humans and humans would probably grow more intense.
After all, magical girls needed his development training to grow stronger, and female demi-humans also needed him to develop and awaken their bloodlines.
"Master~ I want to try this~"
Seeing that he was taking her back to the bed to experience the thrill of an affair, Maroune turned around with her back to him, crouching like a cat in front of him to try things she couldn't in mermaid form.
Master's house was right next door. He could just use teleportation magic to go back. They didn't even need to change position.
Though she felt that being abandoned after he played with her and begging him to love her once more would feel amazing, this secret affection felt wonderful too.
She would experience the feeling of being the favored lover now. Once she went to school, she would experience being humiliated by Princess Iris and the others, only able to watch Master from afar without getting close.
Maroune's plan sounded perfect.
But she forgot one thing.
More and more people were moving into Hikigaya's house. There was no longer much space left for her to enjoy the thrill of an affair.
"Mmm—huh?"
When Maroune, bracing herself, teleported back to Hachiman's room with him, her pretty face flushed red as if she couldn't hold on another second. Suddenly her body froze.
There were already people on the bed.
A silver-haired beauty in black pantyhose and a red-haired girl in a halter camisole.
Even if Master stayed out late, enjoying himself in the club, someone still guarded the empty room, waiting in his bedroom for him to return?
"Ahhhh?"
The red-haired girl and the silver-haired beauty lying on the bed looked at Maroune, who had just appeared and immediately collapsed, her mermaid tears soaking the sheets. Then they instinctively looked past her to Hachiman.
With one glance, their fair, delicate faces instantly flushed bright red.
"Mio? Maria? What are you doing on my bed?"
Seeing others there and unable to fulfill Maroune's fantasy of sneaking around, Hachiman calmly sat up, reached out to grab the silver-haired beauty's black-stockinged foot and the red-haired girl's soft white foot, dragging both of them to his side and pulling them into his arms.
The red-haired girl and the silver-haired beauty were Naruse Mio and Naruse Maria, the master and Service pair.
They had only arrived two days ago and hadn't yet participated in the club's service activities, nor had they gone to Sobu High.
"Wah?"
With the sensitive sole of her foot suddenly attacked, Naruse Mio let out a small cry, but quickly covered her mouth, blushing as she looked at Hachiman, who still held her foot.
It would be a lie to say she had no mental preparation while sleeping in someone else's bed waiting.
But she hadn't expected to be pulled into his arms too. Shouldn't it have been Maria, the dream demon full of dirty thoughts?
Luckily, luckily, the most dangerous place was sealed.
Naruse Mio stole a glance at the part that wasn't fully sealed yet, then quickly looked away, her heart pounding.
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